--Murray praised Giguere's service to the club. He said he had discussions with Toronto's brain trust earlier in the year about a move but the timing wasn't right. But when Jonas Hillergot signed to an extension the deal became doable early Sunday.

"I wasn't sure of anything until about 12:30 last night," Murray said. "Then I thought this might happen this morning. I talked to my hockey people and they were all a go. We feel we're a better team today than we were yesterday. That's nothing against Jiggy. We can only play one goalie and we have that goalie. We upgraded at forward and we feel we're better today. It opens up some space for next year. I can't tell you how much better I feel about having more room next year."

--Murray said it started to become clear in last season's playoffs that Hiller was ready to be a No.1 goalie. He reiterated that it wasn't realistic to keep both goalies on board.

"He deserves to play and he's getting a fresh opportunity, which he deserves," Murray said of Giguere. "It kind of works out for both of them right now."

--Murray on Blake, a veteran winger: "He's a hard worker and he can shoot. He has scored lots of goals in the past and he's a very good penalty killer. He adds some speed to our lineup, something our staff and I were trying to address."

"It frees up money, but I didn't think we were in trouble signing Bobby anyway," Murray said. "Money has been put away to do that. You don't think there are going to be offer sheets, but we were prepared for that. We're in good shape when it comes to Bobby.

(Overall) it hurts the cap a bit this year, but I still have some room under the cap this year."

--Murray said Dan Sexton, who was re-assigned to the AHL, would be back up with the Ducks at some point, although it wasn't clear when that might happen.

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